ELEC/BIOE 548 | ELEC 483
Fall 2022
Episode 12: Finish Poisson-ing & Begin Classifying!
Introduction. Class & brains
Fundamental neurobiology. How do neurons fire? How/what do we record?
Modeling spike trains. First bit of analysis work and understanding firing properties of neurons.
Classification. Making machines learn. Which direction is a monkey trying to reach? Bayesian decoding.
Point processes. Continued modeling work of neurons.
Clustering/Mixture models. Making machines learn some more. Spike sorting.
Continuous decoding. Kalman filters. Machines continue to learn.
Spectral analysis? LFP interpretation in spectral domain. But also kinda in clustering.
How can we measure neural activity?
What info do neurons encode in trains of action potentials (“spike trains”)?
How can we model “statically” encoded information?
Estimation/”decoding”
How can we model/decode “dynamic” information? (filtering, Kalman, HMM)
Signal conditioning – “spike sorting” (PCA, Expectation-Maximization)
Beyond spike trains (LFP, EEG, imaging)
EXPERIENCE/DECISIONS!
Bayesian?
Story time!
What would you do??
Monkey Reach Task